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Politics is not one-dimensional
editThis article makes the usual mistake of regarding politics as one-dimensional. There is not only "right" or "left". All the choices in all the dimensions of economic, philosophic, psychologic and social thought do not collapse down to one simple measure.
Ran across an article written by Theodore Roosevelt after he was no longer President. He regarded the Republican Party at founding as a Progressive party. He lamented the corruption of the Party by money, more than a century ago. At the time, both parties offered Progressive candidates. At the very least, we have to place "Progressive" on a different dimension - neither "right" or "left".
We cannot have meaningful description of political parties with a one-dimensional model. -- Preceding unsigned comment added by Pbannister (talk o contribs) 05:40, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
- This isn't a discussion forum, and we can only adopt the analytical lenses of our reliable sources--if you could cite a few to point us in the right direction, that'd be great, Remsense .. º 07:57, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
- See the previous "Big Tent" discussion on the archives page. For the first hundred years or more of U.S. history, the opposition between "Hamiltonian" and "Jeffersonian" was much more important than "left" vs. "right" in the modern sense. As the de facto successor to the Whig Party, the Republican party has been economically "Hamiltonian" since shortly after the Civil War. There were significant progressives in the Republican party through the 1920s, and moderate African-American Republicans like Edward Brooke, and white Republicans strongly opposed to racial discrimination, like George Romney could be found through the 1970s, and remnants of "Rockefeller Republicans" existed even later, but since the mid-1990s, the party has depended on and been strongly influenced by a core of white southern conservative support, so that it's difficult to call it anything but conservative for the last 30 years... AnonMoos (talk) 09:55, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
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